Another Round of Rights Issues?
Sonic Retro forumer RGamer2009 posted to Youtube a short demo of Sonic CD running at a local Gamestop kiosk. We have it embedded below this passage. You may notice one memorable item is missing from the demo, but you’ll have to listen closely.
You don’t hear the full rendition to Sonic ~ You Can Do Anything, one of two image themes composed for the game’s cutscenes, originally included with the Japanese and European versions. Instead, you hear a voice-less, rather watered down replacement theme that retains the original melody. No video yet exists to prove as much, but it is now assumed similar neutering exists for the game’s end theme, Cosmic Eternity ~ Believe in Yourself.
Christian Whitehead, who rebuilt Sonic CD from the ground up for the upcoming release in his Retro Software Development Kit, could only speculate on the Retro forums that it was a rights issue, as he didn’t know for sure. But if that’s the case, here’s another issue you may not have thought of: Will that mean these watered down tracks make it onto next week’s Sonic CD soundtrack release in Japan? Both image themes are listed in the track list.
Copyrights and ownership laws, of course, vary around the world. So, depending on what that soundtrack has, we could ironically have the same sort of music switcheroo the original 1993 release endured–albeit under different circumstances and different media this time around.
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The fuck was that shit?
horrible
UGH, that intro went from awesome to crap. It’s been ruined. Bah, this greatly lowers my excitement for the console release.
It sounds a bit like the opening to an old 80s anime like Dragonball Z! XD Wait. Yuji Naka and some of the staff were huge fans of DBZ, right? X) Wonder what the ending (Cosmic Eternity) is going to sound like?
I think we should follow Sonic’s Advice! http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23100000/Copyright-be-damned-sonic-the-hedgehog-23175413-750-600.jpg
Can’t be
flame6753: I got the tip. I didn’t really know what to think of it. How did you obtain this build?
-T
it’s like they took the original game gear version of that song from sonic 2 and remixed it
Are they trying to piss sonic fans off??
“Are they trying to piss sonic fans off??”
This is SEGA my friend.
The team want only innovate and ignore the retro fanbase and the sucess of High Score and High Sales and real essence of sonic.
Sonic Generations is pure miracle, and the best pre sale is miracle, classic physics is miracle, fans like a new sonic game aka generations is miracle… WAIT! This is a right way for sonic…
haha it’s just a mock up =)
FUCK
YOU CAN PLAY AS TAILS???
And this rendition of the song sucks…
There’s only one definitive version of this song:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDvJNpBEu0E&version=3&hl=en_GB
Let’s hope this is only for the demo. I mean, do you remember the demo for Sonic Adventure 2?
Los malos comentarios son de difamadores, los verdaderos fans saben que ese ideo juego es Sonic CD, yo nunca lo jugue y hasta yo se su nombre, allí aparece metal sonic y amy.
Disappointing, really. Prefer Sonic Boom but I have a soft spot for Toot Toot Sonic Warrior.
Just hope the same doesn’t happen to Cosmic Eternity (Believe in Yourself).
@QuietGuy
I bet it does.
It’s an awful version of it, but I wonder if space issues were at play. Think about the average size of a phone or tablet app. Then add tons of music files, in addition to the video. I think this may be like how it was handled for the Wii version of Sonic 4, where they redid the music tracks to play via a MIDI-style interface, instead of being prerecorded.
*looks at US soundtrack* How ironic. -_-
Hopefully the final release retains both soundtracks fully intact (if not that, then hopefully the US soundtrack via DLC?).
Let’s hope it’s only a mock up.
It sounds Alex Makhloufish.
What territory was this in? It may well be that European and Japanese releases of Sonic CD retain the vocals. If this was a European release, disregard this comment!
@Tatiana Shut up, drone. You don’t know what you’re talking about.